For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court. As in prior editions, McCloskey's...

Excerpt from Lectures on Jurisprudence: The Philosophy of Positive Law After his death Mrs. Austin (in 1861) by the advice of friends edited a reprint of the volume containing the Province, ' with the preface above referred to. This was followed two...

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Excerpt from Leading Cases in the Commercial Law of England and Scotland, Vol. 2: Selected and Arranged in Systematic Order, With Notes; Contract of Sale The said 10 tons of oil at the time of his purchase were part of 40 tons of oil lying in one of...

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Excerpt from Some Defects in the Constitution of the United States: An Address to the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania, 27 April, 1906 Our F ederal Constitution was adopted nearly a century and a quar ter ago. In that time every State...

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